NVIDIA exploring ways to support an upstream kernel mode GPU driver

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NVIDIA exploring ways to support an upstream kernel mode GPU driver

Time to get your popcorn out, as it seems NVIDIA are continuing their steps to further improve their Linux support on their GPUs.

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Time to get your popcorn out, as it seems NVIDIA are continuing their steps to further improve their Linux support on their GPUs.

We've seen NVIDIA make a few more direct steps towards open source lately like the 560 series and above will switch to open kernel modules by default Turing+, a big patch set for Nouveau, and even contributions to NVK.

Now they're exploring more ways to support the an upstream kernel mode driver. As posted on the dri-devel mailing list from NVIDIA's Ben Skeggs, who was the former Nouveau lead: NVIDIA has been exploring ways to better support the effort for an upstream kernel mode driver for GPUs that are capable of running GSP-RM firmware, since the introduction[1] to Nova.